nmr mr i en oe A SATURDAY, DEC. 17, 1921, THE DAILY E RITISH WHIG. In the Automobile World The Reason for "Bone Dry" dealer's stock, you know that you are buying a new battery. Ice In The Gasoline Line Don't Let Water Accumulate In The Tanks A Bone Dry Battery is one that has been shipped and HINTS : -. ALBERT L.CLOUGH Getting "Gassed" In One's Own Garage - This Is Not A Scare, But A Solemn Warning NE DOES NOT HAVE TO "gassed." In fact, any one garage has all the facilities for a few motorists have met their ends by this means. is not burning its ct! y those running with overrich mix- engine, which practically all of them, but especlall tures--pours from fits exhaust monoxide) gas, one of the deadliest is an insidious poison, pipe, GO into the trenches in order to be who owns a car kept in a small, tight a fatal "gas attack" on himseif and Every gasoline larges completely--and this means Some carbonic oxide (carbon poisons which can be breathed. It with no characteristic smell and its ill effects are : present In the fuel sudden and come on with little warning. Only a migute proportion of it, In the alr, is & enough to house one car, with room to walk around it and they contain so little alr that but little of this poison gas i» required to render it deadly. In warm weather no one is inclined to idle a car engine, with the doors closed, but in winter there is a danger. Ous temptation to do sc, especially as these garages are rarely heated ang, the engine requires a long period of "warming up." Do not yield to the temptation of remaining in such a garage with the engine running and the doors closed, even for a very short time, but run the car outside and do the warming up out there. Even with the doors open, one runs the chance of a bad headache by staying inside for a long time with an idling engine. The smaller the space, the less the ventilation and the less complete the combustion of the engine that is running, the greater is the danger amd the danger is a very real one. PISTON-RINGS AND TIMING- TROUBLE IN ENGAGING HIGH GEARS GEAR E. J. writes: I recently had new piston-rings fitted in one cylinder of my engine, but now this cylinder | pumps oil badly and there is a grinding noise, which seems to| high-gear, the latter does not en- come from it. The cylinder walls | gage, necessitating my starting the Were pronounced in good condition, | car over again and sometimes it before the new rings were installed. | d0es not catch immediately, but What do you think is wrong? 1 hie and then goes in. also notice an unusual roaring Answer: "This may be because noise, which seems to come from | pq driven clutch member keeps on the timing gears. What is the spinning excessively, after you have probable cause of this? had it speeded up on intermediate, : If the walls of this| thus making the speeds of the two 'eylinder are actually In good shape, halves of the high-speed clutch s0 the only cause for oil pumping 13} different that they cannot lock to- that the new rings were badly | gether. On the .codtrary, the fitted. Probably they do not touch | driven clutch member may stop so the \ cylinder wall all the way|suddenly, due to harsh clutch. around and they may be loose in | brake action, that the same wide their grooves or have too much Bap | difference exists between the clearance. On the other hand, one speeds of the high-speed clutch or more of them may have been E. J. writes: Sometimes, in changing from intermediate to members. If the engaging faces fitted too tightly and scored the [of the high speed clutch are badly wall or broken and this broken one battered, they are likely to cnter may be making the nolse which one another with difficulty. It your ou hear. Your cylinder with the trouble is from clutch spinning, try Fad rings is doubtless operating waiting a second after throwing weakly snd a weak cylinler al- | out intermediate, before throwing ways tends to make the timing|in high. If your car has a clutch Bears growl during idling. Poasi- brake, see If it makes any differ- bly, if the timing gears have been | ence in the facility of making this | taken down, there may have been change, whether the pedal is { some error in adjustment made in pushed fully or only partly fom | assembling. ; ward, th imine us of the old-time hand organ, ERI] Sept frre fl TEI0A8 ua wt the old re ------ HEN THE ENGINE OF A CAR THAT is kept in an unheated garage or has been left standing outside for a long time fails to start or starts, runs for a minute or two and then stops and will not start again, the reason quite often is that water, accidentally system, has frozen and stopped the flow of gasoline The place where ice is most likely to form {is at the tarburetor float chamber, where the gasoline supply pipe enters and where there frequently is a filter screen. Freezing here may no only cut off the supply of gasoline, but may prevent the float from rising, by freezing the float stem in its guide. If there is a "dip" or low point in the carburetor Supply pipe, ice may also form there. It the carburetor bowl drain is opened and a piace of wire cannot be run up fully into the bowl, it is likely that there is ice present, which can be thawed by the use of hot water. Where possible the carburetor bowl should be immersed in warm water contained In a small, fully filled dish, but Obviously, by keeping water out of the 18 reddily accomplished. If aj] gasoline is filtered no water will be taken in, but this is hardly praetic feed systems there {8 usually a sediment and water chamber at the tank or elsewhere in the feed line and, if this is emptied frequently there uble, but If it is allowed to overfill with water some of this may reach the carburetor. In vacuum systems, there is the main tank drain and the drain at the bottom of the vacuum tank, , until only clean ger of water reaching pipes from both the main and vacuum tanks are so arranged that considerable water may collect without entering them. The occasional drawing off of liquid from the drain in the carburetor float chamber, until only clean gasoline comes, should always be prac- ticed. - The freezing of water in a "dip" in the main tank draft-pipe or in the carburetor pipe may split the copper tubing and sediment bulbs and carburetor pipe connections are occasionally burst in this way, mak- ing it advisable to drain the fuel system of a car that is laid up for the winter in a cold place. "HITS" ON TWO CYLINDERS ONLY to the carburetor. through chamois, able. In gravity proper charges, possibly because of bad leakages of alr into them, orlo- RUSTED--IN BRAKE ANCHOR 1 P. L. writes: The screw pin is stuck so tightly in the anchor-sup- | port of one of my foot brakes, that {I cannot move it and thus cannot | detach the band, which needs relin- | ing: : have Fain a screwdriver on . | this pin as orcibly as I dare to, I have a four but cannot budge it. What can you suggest? | - pig RO A i 7 ly a a J. J. G. writes: cylinder engine, equipped with bat- tery ignition, which will run on cylinders 1 and 4 but will not fire cylinders 2 and 3, although there is a spark at all plugs. Can you | explain this? i Answer: In order to. eliminate the possibility of faulty plugs, try putting those now in cylinders 1 and 4 Into cylinders 2 and 3 and | vice versa, and see if this makes | 3 and 3 fire. It may be that the plug cables coming from the Rum- | ber 2 and 3 distributor posts go to | considerable trouble, as it is very the wrong plugs and should be re- | subject to rusting and is disturbed versed. Set the engine on full com- but rarely. It is so frail that care pression of number 2 cylinder | must be taken to avoid twisting it (with both its valves closed), and | off. We Suggest that you soak it see if the distributor brush is on | thoroughly with a good rust remov- the segment connected with the | ing preparation and, if this will not cable leading to number 2 cylinder. | loosen it so that it can be turned, If not, the two cables should be that you take the reversed. Try priming all four shop and have the oxy-acetylene cylinders and then run the engine. | flame applied to it, to heat it so as If all cylinders fire, it shows that | to cause it to expand and break the ignition is all right but that the rust which prevents its being middle cylinders fall to" receive screwed out, Answer: The anchor pin Bives Questions of general interest to the motorist will de answered dy Mr. Clough in this column, space permitting. If an immediate answer i» desired, enclose sclf-addressed, stamped envelope. 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